Hogs slate Kent State for 2020 football
FAYETTEVILLE — After booking Notre Dame the previous day, Arkansas added a second nonconference team to its 2020 football schedule Friday.
Arkansas will meet Kent State for the first time on Sept. 5, 2020, at Reynolds Razorback Stadium in Fayetteville. A week later, the Razorbacks travel to South Bend, Ind., for their first meeting with Notre Dame, which completes the home-and-home series with Arkansas in 2025.
Kent State will mark the fourth current Mid-American Conference program that Arkansas has faced. The Ohio school is alma mater both of former Arkansas coach Lou Holtz, who later won a national championship at Notre Dame, and current Alabama coach Nick Saban.
The Razorbacks have 2018 nonconference games against Eastern Illinois (Sept. 1), at Colorado State (Sept. 8), North Texas (Sept. 15) and Tulsa (Oct. 20). Arkansas’ 2019 schedule includes home games against Portland State (Aug. 31), Colorado State (Sept. 14) and San Jose State (Sept. 21). Texas pays a Sept. 11, 2021, visit to Fayetteville between Razorback home games against Missouri State and Georgia Southern.
Knight returning to baseball program
FAYETTEVILLE — With the final Major League signing date elapsing Friday, Arkansas righthander Blaine Knight officially returns to the 2018 Razorbacks for his junior year.
Drafted in the 29th round by the Texas Rangers in June, Knight did not sign with the Rangers and can’t resubmit for the Major League draft until 2018.
“See y’all in 2018,” Knight tweeted Friday to Razorbacks fans.
The co-ace with Trevor Stephan for the 45-19 Razorbacks this year, Knight went 8-4 with a 3.28 earnedrun average, 96 strikeouts and 20 walks in 90 2-3 innings. The Razorbacks finished second in the Southeastern Conference West, second in the SEC tournament and second in the NCAA Fayetteville Regional.
Top Baylor golfer transfers to UA
FAYETTEVILLE — Big 12 individual women’s golf champion Dylan Kim has transferred from Baylor to Arkansas, Razorback coach Shauna Estes-Taylor said Friday.
After three seasons at Baylor, Kim transfers to Arkansas as a junior with two years of eligibility remaining.
Kim has qualified for next week’s U.S. Women’s Open in Bedminster, N.J., winning a twoday qualifying tournament at Fort Worth’s Diamond Oaks Country Club with a 137 in late May.
In addition, Kim reached the championship match of the Women’s Western Amateur Championship, finishing runner-up in stroke play at 72-71—143.
Kim played for Baylor in 2014-
15, redshirted the following year after competing in just one event and helped the Bears reach the NCAA championship quarterfinals this past season. She averaged 73.46 strokes as a redshirt sophomore with four top-10 finishes, winning the Big 12 tournament with a 2-under 214. That marked her seventh career top-10 finish in 21 tournaments.